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The network monitoring tools used to monitor the entire network devices and services constantly and it notifies the

Network Administrators if any network devices or services effected (any Node or Links down and services affected with

high utilization)

Now most of the organizations from the smallest office to the largest enterprises looking for some kind of network

monitoring tools to help them analyze performance issues alert them to threats and provide reports on the health of

the network environment For any organization it is highly crucial to invest on Network Monitoring Tools This below list

comprises of some free and some paid but all desirable Network monitoring tools you can find customized package or

an open source code tool as per your requirements

Cacti

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDToolrsquos data storage and graphing

functionality Cacti provides a fast poller advanced graph templating multiple data acquisition methods and user

management features out of the box All of this is wrapped in an intuitive easy to use interface that makes sense for

LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices

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PRTG Network Monitor

PRTG monitors system availability using a variety of methods from simple ping through SNMP and WMI protocols to

specific tasks such as HTTP DNS and Remote Desktop availability using various sensors Using specific sensors for

specific machines an administrator can monitor service availabilityndashincluding Exchange and SQLndashand be notified

instantly of problems Also PRTG comes with some bandwidth monitoring sensors so you can ensure that malware

designed to do DoS ldquophone homerdquo and other overload activities are not operating on your network

PRTG supports all Windows versions XP2003 or later



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Nagios

Nagios is a system and network monitoring application Nagios XI extends on proven enterprise-class Open Source

components to deliver the best monitoring solution for todayrsquos demanding organizational requirements It watches hosts

and services that you specify alerting you when things go bad and when they get better Some of its many features

include monitoring of network services (SMTP POP3 HTTP NNTP ICMP etc) monitoring of host resources (processor

load disk usage etc) and contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email

pager or user-defined method)

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Orion Network Performance Monitor

Orion Network Performance Monitor is the ticket for large complex network environments Stand-out features are the

Web interface an integrated Wireless Poller to monitor wireless devices and easily customizable reports



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Colasoft packet graphingColasoft software includes a Diagnosis console that lists events separated by OSI layers and enables sorting by severity

source address or event type to help speed recovery A special Matrix view is available too that depicts connections at-

a-glance further enhancing diagnosis

Supported operating systems are Windows-only Windows XP (32- and 64-bit versions) Windows Server 2003 (32- and

64-bit versions) Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit versions) Windows 2008 (32- and 64-bit versions) and Windows 7 (32-

and 64-bit versions)

Update Capsa 721 no longer supports Windows 2000

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Munin

Munin is an open source application that enables the administrator to monitor and collect data for networks PCs SANS

and even applications It is designed to be very plug and play A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost

no work

Munin is available for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems including Linux FreeBSD NetBSD Solaris AIX OS X

Darwin supported in trunk and HP-UX



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ZenossZenoss provides insight and unified operations for large-scale physical virtual and cloud-based IT environments Zenoss

is available for a number of operating systems You can install packages built for most flavours of Linux and Mac OS X

or build it from source on any other system where there are no packages pre-built Also available are virtual appliances

for VMware

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Zabbix

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution that has Advanced cache module for much

better performance



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collectdcollectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information Those statistics can then be

used to find current performance bottlenecks (ie performance analysis) and predict future system load (ie capacity

planning)

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Observium

Observium is an autodiscovering PHPMySQLSNMP based network monitoring system focused primarily on Cisco and

Linux networks but includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems



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ArgusArgus is a system and network monitoring application Argus is a fixed-model Real Time Flow Monitor designed to track

and report on the status and performance of all network transactions seen in a data network traffic stream It will

monitor nearly any applications like TCP + UDP applications IP connectivity SNMP OIDS Programs Databases etc

Argus provides a common data format for reporting flow metrics such as connectivity capacity demand loss delay

and jitter on a per transaction basis The record format that Argus uses is flexible and extensible supporting generic

flow identifiers and metrics as well as applicationprotocol specific information

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Ganglia

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids

It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters It leverages widely used technologies such as

XML for data representation XDR for compact portable data transport and RRDtool for data storage and visualization



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MonitMonit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring processes files directories and filesystems on a UNIX

system Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error

situations

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Splunk

Splunk allows you to index search alert and report on both live and archived IT data Splunk is a modular Web-based

tool that allows you to add or subtract apps to match your needs There are both free and enterprise versions available

for Windows Linux Mac AIX Solaris and BSD

Splunk collects data from multiple sources on your network and analyzes that data in one centralized Web-based

location



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LogicMonitorLogicMonitor allows you to add an agent to a machine and have it monitored from your own personalized dashboard

that can be reached from anywhere using a web browser It will keep you apprised of the status of your network

network equipment cloud databases applications power infrastructure and more

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Nagios

Nagios is a system and network monitoring application Nagios XI extends on proven enterprise-class Open Source

components to deliver the best monitoring solution for todayrsquos demanding organizational requirements It watches hosts

and services that you specify alerting you when things go bad and when they get better Some of its many features

include monitoring of network services (SMTP POP3 HTTP NNTP ICMP etc) monitoring of host resources (processor

load disk usage etc) and contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email

pager or user-defined method)

Check More On Nagios

Orion Network Performance Monitor

Orion Network Performance Monitor is the ticket for large complex network environments Stand-out features are the

Web interface an integrated Wireless Poller to monitor wireless devices and easily customizable reports












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